Medical Gerontology: Recent submissions
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The Impact of Parental Earnings and Education on the Schooling of Children
(University College Dublin, 2011)This paper addresses the intergenerational transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in parental background. An important contribution of ... -
Continuous noninvasive orthostatic blood pressure measurements and their relationship with orthostatic intolerance, falls, and frailty in older people.
(American Geriatrics Society, 2011)OBJECTIVES: To identify morphological orthostatic blood pressure (BP) phenotypes in older people and assess their correlation with orthostatic intolerance (OI), falls, and frailty and to compare the discriminatory performance ... -
Fifty plus in Ireland 2011: First results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
(Trinity College Dublin, 2011)The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) is a large-scale, nationally representative study of people aged 50 and over in Ireland. It is the most ambitious study of ageing ever carried out in Ireland and represents ... -
A mathematical model of ageing-related and cortisol induced hippocampal dysfunction.
(BioMed Central, 2009)Background The hippocampus is essential for declarative memory synthesis and is a core pathological substrate for Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common aging-related dementing disease. Acute increases in plasma cortisol ... -
Mayer Wave Activity in Vasodepressor Carotid Sinus Hypersensitivity
(2010)Aims Mayer waves are low frequency blood pressure waves, whose modulation involves central/peripheral baroreflex pathways. Although vasodepressor carotid sinus hypersensitivity (VDCSH) is a common hypotensive disorder in ... -
Incidence and prediction of falls in dementia: a prospective study in older
(2009)Background: Falls are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in dementia, but there have been no prospective studies of risk factors for falling specific to this patient population, and no successful falls interventio ...
